Ah, Dark Avenger Mutation Engine. Sheesh. That brings back memories of frisk and Vesselin Bontchev holding forth on VIRUS-L. The good ol' days.
Dang. It's been at least 1 1/2 decades that experts have been warning that signature-based malware detection isn't gonna cut it. Heck, Fred Cohen warned us in 1987. So what do we get? Nothin' but signature-based antivirus. Sucks bad to be us. Great time to be an antivirus vendor though.
Anyways, a clever answer, and in the final analysis, the correct one. But, violates the implied constraint of GP's question: While running Windows, how do you avoid using Internet Explorer?
My answer was "not as easily as it seems". Your answer was "mu". Very Zen.
IANAL, but AFAIK there's no law against transmitting footage of a crime being committed.
I'd guess not, given the rampant popularity of public surveillance in many cities. After all, the camera's transmitting live footage of crimes being committed every time crime's being committed within its angle of view. Otherwise, can you imagine the scene at police HQ crimewatch media center? "Cor blimey, turn off the cam, there's a tourist being mugged!"
My guess is they're tacking this on so there's no dispute about going in and seizing all the equipment used in the production and broadcast of the video even if the actual owner of the that equipment wasn't involved in the crime.
See also "pretext". As in "incredibly thin" and "amazingly shallow".
As long as you can avoid every piece of software that uses IE's integrated libraries and services for its own web access and rendering. Good luck with that.
Really, "iexplore.exe" is the least of your problems. The real evil is in the half-assed DLLs and associated components.
Anyone who takes any critic's word for it deserves what he gets.
As for me, I can't really nail down my decision criteria for what movies I want to see, but I can assure you that the words "critic review" don't enter into it in the slightest.
So let 'em have it. Then we can start citing it as even more reason to move over to IPv6 already.
How does that solve anything? Or am I misunderstanding which problem you're solving?
If the problem you're solving is "They're eating up precious IPv4 addresses", then yes, IPv6 obviates the problem. But that problem isn't particularly unique to spammers squatting on subnets; for a more egregious example, consider the organizations with legitimate/8 networks that they'll never fully need, but have uncontested ownership of because of legacy considerations (i.e., they were there first, in the ancient days).
If, on the other hand, the problem you mean so solve is "We can escape the spammer's IPv4 addresses by fleeing to IPv6", sorry, that won't work. The entire IPv4 space is mapped as a special IPv6 class, so those squatted addresses will still be present, owned by the same (alleged) crooks, and administered by the same broken processes.
Yeah, It's the botnet equivalent of counter-espionage. Really one for the good guys here.
Well, possibly, but I think the moral conundrum isn't about attacking the botnet itself, but about the owners of the computers the botnet is unwittingly hosted on. All this "poisoning" activity affects the zombied PCs, after all.
To use a (non-car) analogy: Germany invaded Belgium in WWII. That was morally bad. Later, the allies counter-invaded Belgium. That was morally good. But the battles involved in both invasions weren't particularly great for Belgians.
I learned about the connection between the tests and the fashion craze in high school US history. But I lived close to a major US air base and cold-war history involving the nuke race seemed to come up a lot. I think the history department head was a retired officer or something. YMMV, apparently.
Knowing that, who's the greater idiot: the idiot, or the idiot that goes out of his way to waste everyone's time confronting and insulting the first idiot?
As in many things, it takes two to idiot.
And yes, verbing nouns like "idiot" is a perfectly cromulent thing to do.
Who steals my purse, steals trash; 'tis something,
nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to
thousands:
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of about 15 bucks.
a very small country with only around 4 million people, but our recent paper and pencil census worked just fine
Except, perhaps, for that precision issue.
But yeah, stacks of paper truckin' down the freeway have pretty good bandwidth, which was one of the major shortfalls in the electronic census thingie TFA was talking about.
GTS was until recently largely an X.25PSTN. I learned X.25 helping maintain message-switching software at a military weather forecasting center; we were a subsidiary node of GTS in that capacity.
I know that many nodes in the GTS have gone to FTP or TCP socket streaming over the Internet (or VLANs running under the Internet). Old-sk00l by 'net standards, but Très moderne in the WMO timescale.
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Ah, Dark Avenger Mutation Engine. Sheesh. That brings back memories of frisk and Vesselin Bontchev holding forth on VIRUS-L. The good ol' days.
Dang. It's been at least 1 1/2 decades that experts have been warning that signature-based malware detection isn't gonna cut it. Heck, Fred Cohen warned us in 1987. So what do we get? Nothin' but signature-based antivirus. Sucks bad to be us. Great time to be an antivirus vendor though.
What, no VM or Boot Camp?
Anyways, a clever answer, and in the final analysis, the correct one. But, violates the implied constraint of GP's question: While running Windows, how do you avoid using Internet Explorer?
My answer was "not as easily as it seems". Your answer was "mu". Very Zen.
IANAL, but AFAIK there's no law against transmitting footage of a crime being committed.
I'd guess not, given the rampant popularity of public surveillance in many cities. After all, the camera's transmitting live footage of crimes being committed every time crime's being committed within its angle of view. Otherwise, can you imagine the scene at police HQ crimewatch media center? "Cor blimey, turn off the cam, there's a tourist being mugged!"
My guess is they're tacking this on so there's no dispute about going in and seizing all the equipment used in the production and broadcast of the video even if the actual owner of the that equipment wasn't involved in the crime.
See also "pretext". As in "incredibly thin" and "amazingly shallow".
As long as you can avoid every piece of software that uses IE's integrated libraries and services for its own web access and rendering. Good luck with that.
Really, "iexplore.exe" is the least of your problems. The real evil is in the half-assed DLLs and associated components.
does anyone pretend that the critics matter?
Anyone who takes any critic's word for it deserves what he gets.
As for me, I can't really nail down my decision criteria for what movies I want to see, but I can assure you that the words "critic review" don't enter into it in the slightest.
Setting up a cyber-defence HQ in Estonia akin to building a strategic nuclear command-and-control facility in Nagasaki.
The perfect display for playing Duke Nukem Forever on my Phantom console!
In short, you want him to get off your lawn?
Electronic restraints seem a bit extreme for that, it seems.
Lame.
WTF?
Did you just say "This is not the perjury law you're looking for" with a Jedi hand-wave?
Perjury is difficult to prove. This is true. But what conspiracy-theory perspective make you spout pseudo-wisdom like "law as it is practiced"?
Selective prosecution, perhaps. Tactical prosecution, perhaps. But knowingly lying under oath is perjury. Period.
Ah, your BASIC dialect had a RENUM command.
Not all did. In those particular runtime environments, your program would have looked like
So let 'em have it. Then we can start citing it as even more reason to move over to IPv6 already.
How does that solve anything? Or am I misunderstanding which problem you're solving?
If the problem you're solving is "They're eating up precious IPv4 addresses", then yes, IPv6 obviates the problem. But that problem isn't particularly unique to spammers squatting on subnets; for a more egregious example, consider the organizations with legitimate /8 networks that they'll never fully need, but have uncontested ownership of because of legacy considerations (i.e., they were there first, in the ancient days).
If, on the other hand, the problem you mean so solve is "We can escape the spammer's IPv4 addresses by fleeing to IPv6", sorry, that won't work. The entire IPv4 space is mapped as a special IPv6 class, so those squatted addresses will still be present, owned by the same (alleged) crooks, and administered by the same broken processes.
At least we now know the primary constituent element of arcane crystals.
Yeah, It's the botnet equivalent of counter-espionage. Really one for the good guys here.
Well, possibly, but I think the moral conundrum isn't about attacking the botnet itself, but about the owners of the computers the botnet is unwittingly hosted on. All this "poisoning" activity affects the zombied PCs, after all.
To use a (non-car) analogy: Germany invaded Belgium in WWII. That was morally bad. Later, the allies counter-invaded Belgium. That was morally good. But the battles involved in both invasions weren't particularly great for Belgians.
t's more like if you leave your TV on, and your curtains open, and I watch through the window. It may annoy you, but it's not putting you out any.
But that would probably be trespass, which is illegal. And it might be peeping, which is a distinct crime in some jurisdictions.
Trained weasels.
No, really!
I learned about the connection between the tests and the fashion craze in high school US history. But I lived close to a major US air base and cold-war history involving the nuke race seemed to come up a lot. I think the history department head was a retired officer or something. YMMV, apparently.
Knowing that, who's the greater idiot: the idiot, or the idiot that goes out of his way to waste everyone's time confronting and insulting the first idiot?
As in many things, it takes two to idiot.
And yes, verbing nouns like "idiot" is a perfectly cromulent thing to do.
Who steals my purse, steals trash; 'tis something,
nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to
thousands:
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of about 15 bucks.
Encore indeed!
-- Novell, in their objections to SCO's plan to reimburse York
historical milestone:
The first practical implementation of DRM!
a very small country with only around 4 million people, but our recent paper and pencil census worked just fine
Except, perhaps, for that precision issue.
But yeah, stacks of paper truckin' down the freeway have pretty good bandwidth, which was one of the major shortfalls in the electronic census thingie TFA was talking about.
I was hoping that this was just an extremely successful variant on the "Stephen King is dead" troll.
RIP. Truly a Sri Lankan icon.
Agreed. It's a sad day on /. when I look at purported code examples and say to myself "Hmph. BASIC poser."
"BASIC poser" may be the saddest phrase in the geek sublanguage of the English language.
GTS was until recently largely an X.25 PSTN. I learned X.25 helping maintain message-switching software at a military weather forecasting center; we were a subsidiary node of GTS in that capacity.
I know that many nodes in the GTS have gone to FTP or TCP socket streaming over the Internet (or VLANs running under the Internet). Old-sk00l by 'net standards, but Très moderne in the WMO timescale.